2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 08, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Commercial Music, B.M.


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The commercial music curriculum is designed to prepare students for a career in the creative side of the music industry. Commercial Music emphasizes collaborative, project-based learning where students progress through a highly integrated, entrepreneurial driven curriculum encompassing songwriting, arranging, performing, recording engineering, and audio production.

Commercial Music Learning Goals

  • Demonstrate critical listening and theoretical skills through transcription, harmonization, composition or arranging and style differentiation
  • Demonstrate technological skills in the recording studio or computer-based DAW, or through music production, as well as associated listening skills
  • Demonstrate an understanding of legal, marketing, and monetary issues in relation to career opportunities in the music and entertainment industries.

University Studies Requirements


Students in the College of Fine Arts are responsible for meeting all university-wide requirements and the requirements for a major in the College. See the section on Graduation Requirements in the Bulletin for those programs.

Special requirements for students certifying to teach are listed with the descriptions of those programs.

Music Core


Total (43 credits)


*B.M. Commercial Music and B.M. Music Business majors enroll in MH3xx Survey of Commercial Music History

Besides the University Studies and Music Core requirements, candidates must complete the following:


Course


Electives


Degree total (120 credits)


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